Let us weigh one catty of cuttlefish.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
花枝
spray (sprig of a plant with blossoms)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
spray (sprig of a plant with blossoms)
02
cuttlefish (on dining menus)
03
(literary) beautiful woman
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 花枝 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 花枝 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I want to eat squid this evening.
The flowers in the garden hung their heads.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 花枝.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 花枝.
Directly before
- 一片花枝1
- 一斤花枝1
- 吃花枝1
Directly after
- 花枝累垂1
- 花枝吧1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 花枝
What does 花枝 mean in Chinese?
花枝 (huāzhī) means spray (sprig of a plant with blossoms).
How do you pronounce 花枝?
花枝 is pronounced huāzhī.
Is 花枝 an HSK word?
花枝 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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